“Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion—a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint—and Mr [sic] Gish is but one of many to make it—the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today. … Evolution therefore came into being as a kind of secular ideology, an explicit substitute for Christianity.” Michael Ruse was professor of philosophy and zoology at the University of Guelph, Canada (recently moved to Florida)
According to Wikipedia, paganism is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism or ethic religions other than Judaism.
In our time the term new pagan is applied by Christians to people who claim primal matter and the evolution energy as the cause for their being here.
New Pagans claim to be the superior kind of humans. While Christians are unevolved, backward, stupid and superstitious, New Pagans are the best and brightest because they embrace the New Gospel of Science rather than the old Gospel of Christ stitched together by superstitious goatherders.
Their only problem, and it’s an insurmountable one, is that even after searching for many long years among chemicals, water, and such things for an ultimate cause of life and consciousness (their souls), they haven’t been able to find either one. So though they refuse to admit it, they are tantamount to walking dead bodies that for some bizarre reason live and are conscious, and they hate that Christians created by the God all creation, including life and souls, have been able to easily account for life and consciousness. The answers are right there in the Bible.
In our time UAPs (extraterrestrials) are popping up with greater frequency, giving New Pagans a ray of hope. They think: might it be that extraterrestrials brought life here to earth? Are they our creators?
Once again, the Word of God is the book with the answer to what UAPs are but the best and brightest refuse to believe that—to their further detriment since extraterrestrials are in the business of ‘causing’ things to go bump in the night, and far worse ‘causations.’
2024@Linda
Yes, this shows that man’s native “smarts” never lead to anywhere except to paganism. The Truth had to be revealed because man would never find it on his own, being in the darkness. Those who seek the Truth will find and be set free from the darkness. Those who don’t will live in their own lies. And then there’s the Judgement.